Randy Now's Man Cave

Infamous City Gardens booker Randy Now's store is full of rare vinyl, micro-sodas, books, cool collectibles and...lots of other stuff. http://www.mancavenj.com/ 134 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, NJ 08505

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David Bowie, ★

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Open Arts Stage Bordentown Nj

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Randy Now’s Garage A Go-Go

Two Nights of Live Rock & Roll in The Garden State!

Friday, September 18: The Doughboys (New Jersey) Spanking Charlene (NYC) The Insomniacs (New Jersey)

Saturday, September 19: The Grip Weeds (New Jersey) Palmyra Delran (NYC) Soraia (Philadelphia) The Droogettes (Philadelphia)

Tickets: http://on.fb.me/1KuOfID

$15 for one show $25 for a TWO NIGHT PASS 

The Open Arts Stage Theater 146 Rt 130, Bordentown, New Jersey 08505

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Nick Lowe - 1977 Stiff Records tour

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Jello Biafra for the zine Touch and Go (1979?)

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Check this out - GK Presents: 

Down By Law at the Mill Hill Basement in Trenton 

October 11 -  http://on.fb.me/1IENN6Q

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Going to the Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market on Sunday? 

Stop by and say "Hey" to Randy. Check out all of the cool #vinyl. Ask him about City Gardens. 

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This Sunday! Come check out the Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market! @trentonprfm SKULLDEZIGN.STORENVY.COM #skulldezign #trentonpunkrockfleamarket #art #skull #paintings #paint #horror #sundaysundaysunday #monster #cartoon #comic #punk #punkrock #graffiti #tattoo #popart #spraypaint #spraycan #acrylic #canvas

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Come to Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market and visit me and other cool vendors next Sunday, the 16th! I’ll have new stuff this time and I think there’s going to be a lot of Halloween stuff! Food trucks, freak show, live shows, and obscurities… Get there early because last time the line wrapped around the warehouse!

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#29 - Randy Now City Gardens Interview

Randy Now‘s love of music is the subject of the new film “Riot on the Dance Floor” and the book “No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes.” In this fun interview, Randy Now tells us some of the stories that didn’t make it into the film or the book.

“In the film and in the book I probably didn’t tell the best stories, but live on a telephone interview right now I can think of things faster, and I can blurt out things that I’ve never said to anybody else.”

Randy Now at City Gardens with Hank Rollins

To listen to this episode online, click here: http://chrisbrakeshow.podomatic.com/entry/2014-03-24T18_44_41-07_00

To download this episode as an MP3, click here: http://chrisbrakeshow.podomatic.com/enclosure/2014-03-24T18_44_41-07_00.mp3

To listen to this episode on iTunes, click here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chris-brake-show-podcast/id725989655?mt=2&uo=4&at=1l3v33U

Click here to read the full Randy Now Interview

blog post on chrisbrakeshow.com.

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The epic Venom banter mixtape, 1986

Backstory: In 1986, Black Metal legends Venom played what some thought of as an unlikely bill with Rollins-era Black Flag at famed punk dump City Gardens, in scenic Trenton, New Jersey. The club was a magnet for all types of unsavory social elements – skinheads, criminals, bikers, leather-studded punks, people who liked Meat Beat Manifeto, and so forth. Anyway, the punkers, metalheads, and general thugs who turned out for the show not only got to witness two of the more badass bands of the era sharing a stage, but were also treated to some of the most (unintentionally?) hilarious between-song stage banter ever, courtesy of Venom’s knuckle-dragging vocalist Cronos.

The story behind this recording is shrouded in mystery, but the local history texts claim that a Black Flag roadie recorded the entire show, cut out the middle sections of all the songs, and the subsequent stage banter and guitar intros/outros were released as an Ecstatic Peace single. The legacy of the recording is impressive, to say the least. It was sampled by the Beastie Boys on one of their records (“Because you’re wild, man….. WIIIIILD!”) and it’s got more quotable one-liners than a Monty Python movie.

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Fugazi. Ween. City Gardens, Trenton, NJ

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City Gardens

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GWAR - 4/11/88 @ City Gardens, Trenton, NJ - FULL SET

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“When you experience a frenetic kind of DIY punk energy at a tender age, it carries you onward for the rest of your life, if you let it. It gets you through bad days at work and drives you to wear a Ramones T-shirt to important events like, say, your Ph.D dissertation defense.”

(via À la Recherche du Punk Perdu)

Camille Cauti gets at something really important about music, resilience, happiness and nostalgia in this piece about an adolescence at City Gardens. Check it.

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My first show at city gardens. Trenton, NJ The Exploited Pagan Babies Vision The Uprise

There was a riot.

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